At CES 2025, AMD plans to showcase both low-end and high-end AI PCs. The business announced a new series of Ryzen AI Max chips designed for “halo” Copilot+ AI PCs, which would be placed over existing Ryzen AI 9 systems. It will also introduce Ryzen AI 7 and 5 CPUs for mid-tier and low-end AI PCs. AMD clearly wants AI PC choices for everyone.
To AMD’s credit, the Ryzen AI Max CPUs appear to be powerhouses. They include up to 16 Zen 5 performance cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU compute units, and 50 TOPS of AI performance via AMD’s XDNA 2 NPU. The company says it provides 2.6 times quicker 3D rendering than Intel’s Core Ultra 9 288V, as well as 1.4 times higher graphics performance in benchmarks such as 3DMark’s Wildlife Extreme and Solar Bay. It also performs comparably to Apple’s 14-core M4 Pro chip, and it outperforms the Vray benchmark.
Ryzen AI Max systems will be available in the first and second quarters of the year, including the HP Zbook Ultra G1a and the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 convertible.
The Ryzen AI 7 and 5 CPUs will offer somewhat slower performance than existing Ryzen AI 9 PCs. The Ryzen AI 7 processor has eight cores and a maximum boost speed of 5GHz, whereas the Ryzen AI 5 340 has six cores and a maximum speed of 4.8GHz. In addition, AMD will introduce Ryzen 200 chips in the second quarter for PCs that do not require a lot of AI capability. They’ll provide up to 16 TOPS of AI performance (compared to 50 TOPS on better AI processors) and top out at the eight-core Ryzen 9 270.
